The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.

When we blindly accept an idea, a thought, or a dogma, we become blind.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.